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G. OBRIEN, I COMBINATION KNITTED GARMENT.

No. 505,953. Patented Oct. 3, 1893.

r I I Mn OZrz'e FFICEe GERALDINE OBRIEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINATION KNITTED GARMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,953, dated October 3, 1893.

Application filed January 14, 1893- Serial No. 3,331. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERALDINE OBRIEN, of Boston, county of Sufiolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Oombination Knitted Garments, of which the following description,in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters and figures on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to improve the construction of combination garments, the chief aim being to insure a better fit.

F gure 1 in front elevation shows a combination garment embodying my invention. Fig. 2 shows one of the back flaps detached and enlarged; Fig. 3, an enlarged front elevatlon of one half of my improved garment; Figs. 4 and 5 detached views of the front and back pieces of the shoulder. Fig. 6 is a rear slde. elevation of the half of the garment shown in Fig. 3.

In the manufacture of my improved garment I make one and then the other half, and in the production of one half I prefer to proceed as follows: I knit a back shoulder piece A, commencing the same preferably at the broader edge a, knitting in the direction of the arrow Fig. 5 and narrowing at one edge as at d to make a selvage edge, running off the loops at the end (1. Next the front shoulder piece B may be commenced at the end I), knitted to b, and then the number of needles be increased to knit the wider portion 6 running off the loops at the end h The piece B will have selvage edges at all except the edge 6 The selvage edge b of the piece B may then be united to the selvage edge a of the piece A, and the selvage edge I) of piece B will then have its loops picked onto a series of needles in a rib knitting machine, sufiicient in number to knit the body portion 0 of the front of the garment, the said front being knitted to the piece B to present its knitted wales at right angles to the Wales in said piece B.

To provide fullness in the front of the garment along and about the edge I), to thus adapt the garment to the contour of the breast of the wearer, I may and preferably do pick one loop at intervals onto two needles lying side by side and in thisI may gain any desired fullness.

The bust and Waist covering portion of the front may be knitted in usual manner in the same or a different stitch, and if desired the waist may be knitted by dropping out of action every other needle of the back row of needles thus contracting the waist as commonly practiced. The waist terminates at about the line 11, and from that point downward to the line 2-2 the edge 0, see left of Fig. 3, and edge 0' at the right are both widened. Having reached the line 22, the operator runs off the fabric, takes the selvage edge a of the back piece A and sets itupon the desired number of needles and the back D is knitted thereto down to the waist line 11*, Fig. 6, the knitted wales of the said back being at right angles to the wales in piece A, at which point the operator commences to widen one edge of the fabric, see left of Fig. 6, to produce the gore 1 1213. The loops are then run olf the needles from 12 to 13 and the knitting is continued from the line 121l, to the line 32, widening from 14 to 2. In this condition of the fabric the loops at the front previously run off at the line 22, are added along side the neodles holding the loops from 2 to 3 of the back and knitting is continued, a sufficient number of needles being usedto knit a hip covering part on the line 3*22, to cover both back and front, and the edge from 3 to 4, Fig. 6, is left straight but the opposite edge 0 of the fabric, in continuation of the edge 0', see Fig. 3, is widened down to the point 5, see

Fig. 3 the points 4 and 5 being supposed to be in the same course of loops.

From the points 45 seeFig. 3 to 6-78,- the fabric is knitted of substantially the same width, and from there to the bottom 9 of the leg the fabric is narrowed in usual manner to produce a leg E, and is terminated by the rib end 10. The narrowing of the edges of the,

leg part terminates at about the point 15.

The gore 1 l213, co-operating With a like gore of the other half of the garment affords the fullness required at the back just below the waist line.

To make the sleeve the operator takes the flaps G having gore portions g, the portions A' and D being united in the back, the portions A, B, having their edges a, b, united, the back and front being united from the arm scyes to the full parts of the hips, the back flaps being knitted at their upper ends to portions of each half of the back, a portion of each back flap being seamed to a leg, portions of the gores g of the back flaps being carried through to the front of the garment and being united thereto and to each other, said sleeves being attached to the edges a h of the parts A, B, and to the front and back at the arm scye, the knitted wales in the back and front being at right angles to the knitted wales in the shoulder covering portions, substantially as described.

5. A combination garment having its halves composed of front and back shoulder portions A, B, front and back portions G,D, knitted thereto, said back portions having gore pieces 1", 12, 13, below the waist line; leg portions E, and back flaps G, the portions A and D being united in the back, the portions A,

'B, having their edges a, b united, the back and front being united from the arm scyes to the full parts of the hips, the back flaps being knitted at their upper ends to portions of each half of the back, other portions of each back flap being seamed to a leg, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence'of two subscribing witnesses.

GERALDINE OBRIEN.

Witnesses:

EMMA J. BENNETT, LAURA MANIX. 

